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 Ante, p. 1017. AND WHEREAS, it is provided in Part V of the said agreement that to be valid the agreement must be ratified by Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the United States of America, and further that the ratifications must be deposited through diplomatic channels in the archives of the Government of Cuba, and that the Government of Cuba shall, through diplomatic channels, notify the other signatory Governments Ante, p. 1018. of the ratifications as soon as they are received, and in Part VI thereof that except for the provisions of Section 1 of Part III, Section 1 of Ante, pp. 1016,1017, Part V and paragraph 3 of Table VI of Appendix I annexed to the 1023. agreement (which provisions shall go into effect immediately upon the agreement becoming valid), the said agreement shall become effective one year after the date on which it shall have been ratified by the fourth of those Governments whose ratification is requisite to the validity of the agreement; Ante, p. 1017. AND WHEREAS, pursuant to Part V of the agreement, the Govern- ment of Cuba has notified the Government of the United States of America through diplomatic channels that the ratifications of the said agreement by Cuba, Haiti, the United States of America, Canada and Mexico were deposited in the archives of the Government of Cuba, on January 12, 1938, June 27, 1938, July 21, 1938, December 22, 1938 and March 29, 1940, respectively; Effective dates. AND WHEREAS, in consequence of the deposit of the aforesaid rati- Ante, pp. 1017 ,1018. fications and pursuant to the aforesaid provisions of Part V and Part VI of the said agreement, the said agreement became valid among the United States of America, Canada, Cuba, Haiti and Mexico, on March 29, 1940, the date of the deposit of the ratification of Mexico, which was the fourth of the ratifying Governments whose Ante, pp. 1015 ,1017, ratification was requisite to the validity of the agreement, and Sec- 1023. tion 1 of Part III and Section 1 of Part V of the said agreement, and paragraph 3 of Table VI of Appendix I annexed thereto became effective on March 29, 1940, and all other provisions of the said agreement will become effective on March 29, 1941, one year after the date of the deposit of the ratification of the said agreement by Mexico; Now, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the said agreement and do call upon the United States of America and the citizens thereof to observe and fulfill the said agreement and every article and part thereof with good faith. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] forty-one and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 1096 [55 STAT. TREATIES

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